Show #4017 2002-02-05 (taped 2001-12-17) Teen Tournament

2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

Liana Walters — a junior from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

Evan Stewart — a sophomore from Frankfort, Kentucky

Heidi Greimann — a junior from Columbia, Missouri

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Heidi $200 $1,800 $8,600 $13,600
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated
$8,600
13 R, 2 W
Evan $3,200 $7,400 $19,800 $20,000
Automatic semifinalist
$19,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Liana $2,000 $5,200 $6,600 $13,200
3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated
$10,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE OTHER PLANETS TV AROUND THE U.S.A. ORDER, PLEASE SPEAKING OF LANGUAGE RHYME TIME
$200 [1]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents in front of a chalkboard showing the planets' orbits.) In our solar system this innermost planet travels around the Sun the fastest
Mercury
Liana
$200 [13]
California-born James Marsters plays Spike, a British goth vampire on this series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Liana
$200 [2]
The New Mexico Military Institute is in this city (wonder if anyone from outer space is enrolled)
Roswell
Evan
$200 [21]
From smallest to largest: gallon, pint, quart
pint, quart, gallon
Evan
$200 [7]
It's the official language of the provinces of North & South Holland
Dutch
Evan
$200 [26]
The person who shows up after the agreed upon time to take you to the movies
a late date
Heidi
$400 [12]
The greenhouse effect is in effect on this planet that gets twice as much sunlight as the Earth
Venus
Evan
$400 [14]
Megan Mullally is Debra Messing's wacky socialite assistant Karen on this sitcom
Will & Grace
Liana
$400 [3]
The state bird of Idaho is the "mountain" type of this symbol of happiness
bluebird
Evan
$400 [22]
From least to greatest number of dice used: Yahtzee, Hi Ho Cherry-O, Trivial Pursuit
Hi Ho Cherry-O, Trivial Pursuit, Yahtzee (0, 1 and 5)
Heidi Evan
$400 [8]
In the USA, over 18,000,000 speak this non-English language
Spanish
Heidi
$400 [27]
A feline run over by a steamroller
a flat cat
Evan
$600 [18]
Winter in the northern hemisphere lasts about 150 days on this planet noted for its ice caps
Mars
Evan
$600 [15]
After a failed sitcom, The Lone Gunman returned to this show
The X-Files
Liana
$600 [4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from New Orleans.) New Orleans is world-famous for decorative art made from this metal, as you can see here at the Fataba Apartments
(cast) iron
Heidi
$600 [23]
From youngest to oldest: Taylor, Zac & Isaac Hanson
Zac, Taylor & Isaac Hanson
Liana
$600 [9]
"Hakuna matata" means "no worries" in this widely-spoken language of Tanzania
Swahili
Liana
$600 [28]
A distant Sun-like object
a far star
Liana
$800 [19]
KX76, a Kuiper belt object discovered in 2001, is about half the size of this smallest planet
Pluto
Evan
$800 [16]
This WB drama about a young Clark Kent is basically "Dawson's Creek" with superpowers
Smallville
Liana
$800 [5]
This first lady's portrait hangs in the White House bedroom named for her husband
Mary Todd Lncoln
Liana
$800 [24]
The 5 vowels in reverse alphabetical order
U, O, I, E, A
Evan
$800 [10]
Franz Bopp demonstrated the link between modern languages and this classical Indian one
Sanskrit
Heidi Evan Liana
$800 [29]
A shy Athenian who will inherit the Earth
a meek Greek
Evan Liana
$1,000 [20]
Callisto, a satellite of this planet, has a rock heart, not a Flockhart
Jupiter
Liana
$1,000 [17]
Jennifer Garner plays a double agent on this spy drama
Alias
Liana
$1,000 [6]
If you want to see the International Museum of the Horse, trot over to Lexington in this state
Kentucky
Evan
DD $1,000 [25]
By when they were first awarded: Emmy, Nobel Prize, Oscar
Nobel Prize, Oscar, Emmy
Evan
$1,000 [11]
The Berbers, mainly found on this continent, rarely use a written form of their native language
Africa
Evan
$1,000 [30]
A eating utensil for hog meat
a pork fork
Heidi

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLAY TIME McPEOPLE STUFF THAT HAPPENED EARTH TONES MECHANICAL PROBLEMS CALL TRIPLE "A"
$400 [21]
The romance of Emily Webb & George Gibbs from their schooldays is the focus of this play
Our Town
Evan
$400 [6]
Poor guy! He finished the 2001 baseball season with 29 fewer homers, 41 fewer than in 1998
Mark McGwire
Evan
$400 [1]
The upper & lower portions of this country united in 1840
Canada
Liana
$400 [11]
It describes worked leather or someone who has sat in the sun
tanned
Liana
$400 [25]
You can determine the period of this object (the time of 1 swing) from the length of its string
a pendulum
Heidi
$400 [16]
Mohandas Gandhi was called this, meaning "great soul"
Mahatma
Evan
$800 [22]
Laura collects glass animal figurines in this play by Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
Evan Liana
$800 [7]
This star of "The Practice" has also appeared on several episodes of "Ally McBeal"
Dylan McDermott
Liana
$800 [2]
In 1964 Dorothy Hodgkin became the third woman to win a Nobel in chemistry & the first without this last name
Curie
Evan
$800 [12]
To get just one or a latte of this shade of brown at Starbucks, first take an umber
coffee
Heidi
$800 [26]
Ironically, this event in 1923 destroyed H. Nakano's manuscripts on the representation of seismic waves
an earthquake
Heidi
$800 [17]
If your eyelashes are blond, try using this in brown
mascara
Evan
$1,200 [23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Witch Dungeon Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.) John Proctor & other characters in this 1953 play were based on real people in the Salem witch trials
The Crucible
Heidi
$1,600 [9]
Don't fear the reaper; at least not the one patented by this inventor in 1834
(Cyrus) McCormick
Evan
$1,200 [3]
As Europe & Asia had the Silk Road, North & Central America had a "road" for this bluish stone
turquoise
Heidi
$1,200 [13]
A stoat is a brown animal; this anagram of stoat is also brown in color
toast
Heidi
$1,200 [27]
Paul Dirac used math to describe subatomic activity in his 1930 book "The Principles of " this type of "Mechanics"
quantum mechanics
Liana
$1,200 [18]
The oldest forage crop grown for fodder, its sprouts are popular in salads & sandwiches
alfalfa
Heidi
$1,600 [24]
Jason's first mistake: Leaving this woman, a sorceress & his wife, in this Euripides play named for her
Medea
Heidi
$2,000 [10]
In 1861 he was appointed general in chief of the Union Army
McClellan
Liana
$1,600 [4]
During a September 26, 1687 battle, the roof of this landmark on Athens' Acropolis was blown off
the Parthenon
Evan
$1,600 [14]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents holding a pot.) The pot I have here is an example of this, Italian for "big dirt"
terra cotta
Evan
$1,600 [28]
To plot a bullet's trajectory, you'll need to know the MV, this "velocity" when it leaves the gun
the muzzle velocity
Heidi Evan
$1,600 [19]
In studying geometry you don't want to take this curve too fast
the parabola
Evan
DD $5,600 [29]
Roxanne loves the handsome Christian, a soldier who's no good at writing love letters, in this 1897 play
Cyrano de Bergerac
Liana
DD $3,000 [8]
He gave his name to America's tallest mountain
(William) McKinley
Liana
$2,000 [5]
Ancient areas with legal codes include Greece with Draco's & this land with Hammurabi's
Babylon
Evan
$2,000 [15]
It's the shade of reddish brown in the name of the baking potato
russet
$2,000 [30]
A Machine's ratio of output to input is called this, a related synonym of "effectiveness"
efficiency
Evan
$2,000 [20]
This body of Jewish mystical teaching seeks hidden meaning in scripture
the Kabbalah

Final Jeopardy!

FADS

A '50s fad still popular today, this toy was inspired by a Connecticut bakery's pie tins

frisbee

Liana "What is frisbee??" — wagered $6,600
Heidi "What are frsbees?!" — wagered $5,000
Evan "What are frisbees?" — wagered $200

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